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Clash: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jon Marshall
Former President Donald Trump attacked the press relentlessly before and after his term in office. A master at manipulation, he even admitted that ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, and KCBX


  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Oslo
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Sometimes the only thing you need to solve an intractable interntional conflict is waffles.

Bought by KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:04
  • Purchases: 19
215: James Madison & the 4 Letters
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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It's 1789 and the beginning of bureaucracy in the United States. James Madison is writing letters to smooth the path of George Washington's disorga...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR
From: Sean Guillory
Series: Teddy Goes to the USSR
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Americans believed the Soviet Union was cut off from the West. Nothing went in. And very little came out. Yet, tens of thousands of Americans visit...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:42
Lisa Graves: The Extremist Revolution & Democracy Hanging by a Thread
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The American Right is embracing a dangerous extremism, challenging elections, packing courts and aligning with Hungarian prime minister and Putin-a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KVSC and more


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Originalist
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A timely play about a polarizing figure.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:04
  • Purchases: 32
Nixon at War: How Vietnam Led to Watergate
From: Nixon at War
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On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in (June 17th, 1972), writer, historian, and Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 host Kurt A...

Bought by WCMU Michigan, Spokane Public Radio, KRCU Public Radio, KAAD-LP, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 40
NL 22-16: Jazz Goes to the Cold War, 4/11/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1950s and 60s, as the Cold War & the civil-rights movement heated up, the U.S. State Department sent jazz musicians on goodwill tours around...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
REPLAY Patrick Henry's "Thunder Speech" (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Thomas Jefferson said Patrick Henry “got the ball of revolution rolling.”

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY, Royalton Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
REPLAY Patrick Henry's "Thunder Speech" (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Thomas Jefferson said Patrick Henry “got the ball of revolution rolling.”

Bought by WTJU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
REPLAY Patrick Henry's "Thunder Speech" (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Thomas Jefferson said Patrick Henry “got the ball of revolution rolling.”

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WFHB, WJCT, KHNS and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
REPLAY Patrick Henry's "Thunder Speech" (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Thomas Jefferson said Patrick Henry “got the ball of revolution rolling.”

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
2021 Producer’s Choice Awards – Part 2: The Poetry Show
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Similarities between Mr. Putin's War and the Confederacy? Roger Lowenstein, author of “WAYS & MEANS," explains.
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In WAYS & MEANS. Lincoln and his Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, author Roger Lowenstein not only spells out how each side in very diff...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 10:26
Lone Star Launch Pad for Rear-Guard America? These Not So United States (TX Part 5)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Lone Star Launch Pad for Rear-Guard America? These Not So United States (TX Part 5), Credit: The Purple Principle
Our special guests for this fifth episode on Lone Star State identity are two authors with Texas-sized reputations: Lawrence Wright (The Looming To...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 32:31
Role of Anarcho-Pacifism in Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Perhaps, you’ve heard of “Pacifism” but have you heard of “Anarcho Pacifism.” What’s the difference between the two? On this edition of Peace Talk...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Democratizing Democracy: Redistricting by the People
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Redistricting has the power to shape elections, and this year, it’s more controversial than ever. After a contentious 2020 census, the development ...

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Thomas Paine’s Lost Body
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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In the first episode of our new season, Devin and Lauren look to a William G. Pomeroy marker in Westchester County to learn about American patriot ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Disposable Cities: Part 4 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: An abandoned home near Love Canal in Niagara Falls. (UPI Photo)
This is part 4 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and The Production of Violence published by Routled...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Civics 101: The Politics of the Olympics
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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The Olympics are about more than feats of athletic glory - they are the multi-billion dollar stage on which politics and sport collide.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, Oregon Public Broadcasting, RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:34
  • Purchases: 9
How Easy Is It to Commit Fraud in an Election?
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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"THE STEAL. The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It," co-authored by Mark Bowden, concentrates in week-by-week, sta...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Here There Be Dragons: Part 2 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena 1585" by Baptista Boazio, 1589
This is Part 2 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence, published by Routle...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
NL 22-03: The Year In Jazz, 1963: A Man’s Dream, A Nation’s Nightmare, 1/10/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing unease and the youthful vitality...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
647: Whose Land Is It? / 648: Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?, 12/18/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Whose Land Is It?" - Owning land is a big part of the American dream. But there’s a problem with that: That land is often stolen. So who...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00

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